Chapter Twenty-Six - A Completely Smooth Landing
***
"Aiyana, are you crazy? It's four o'clock in the morning, what - what *are* you doing?"
Aiyana stared at Masaya. "You're a doctor," she said. "You should be used to doing calls early in the morning."
Aiyana had notified the hospital staff that Masaya needed to get to the hospital immediately for an emergency. They were to use any means possible to get him here - or else. Picking up on the young man's feelings for the new mother, the nurse had told Masaya simply that Aiyana had a critical problem, and the young doctor had come running.
When he arrived and found that Aiyana was alive and well, and that Mikomi was as well, he was more than a little miffed.
"Yeah, but-" Masaya yawned. "If I don't have to do any calls, I like to sleep."
"I've got a problem," said Aiyana. "Maybe not critical to my life, but it is pretty critical. I need for you to take Mikomi-chan and these letters to Ami's house." Aiyana sensed Masaya about to protest, so she continued on quickly. "I have something to do and I don't have time to go to Ami's house, nor the means. As it is, I have to get to the palace on foot, and it'll take me a while to get there."
"The palace? Aiyana, are you crazy? The decision hasn't yet been rendered by the king and queen, and they may-"
"Let me repeat: I *have* to get to the palace on foot,and it'll take me a little while to get there." Aiyana held Mikomi out towards Masaya, her eyes pleading. "Please, Masaya. You promised me that you would help me in any way you could."
Masaya sighed. He had promised her that, and he intended to keep that promise. "But." He gently took Mikomi from Aiyana's outstretched hands. The little girl shifted and sighed a little, getting comfortable in her new caretaker's arms. "Could you *please* tell me what you plan on doing?"
Aiyana smiled mysteriously and kissed Masaya on his cheek. "Thank you," she said. "I should be back in a little while; I don't want to be away from Mikomi-chan too long. I love my girl," she said, now directing her attention to her daughter. "I don't want to be away from my girl."
Masaya sighed heavily. "Okay, if you want to be mysterious, go ahead," he said. "I don't care. I don't even think I want to know."
Aiyana looked back up at Masaya. "I have a few things to take care of for the legacy of my mother. Don't ask," she added, when she saw the incredulous look on Masaya's face. "I just know, okay?"
Masaya nodded and cradled Mikomi closer to him.
"If Kaioh-san and Tenoh-san come looking for me - they'll probably go to Ami - tell Ami to give them these letters." She pointed to the letters she handed Masaya. "I didn't write them. Hotaru did."
Masaya's eyes widened.
"One more thing...Masaya, what did they do with my sword?"
***
The pilot on deck was half-asleep until the sensors started beeping madly.
Jadeite slapped the pilot in the back of the head as he rushed up to the control deck of the ship. The pilot shook his head and groggily opened his eyes. "Jadeite-dono, what was that for?"
"For this, numbskull!" Jadeite pointed to the screen. "These guys are almost on top of you, and they're about to attempt to land on earth!"
"What if they come in peace?" said the co-pilot, half-jokingly.
"Yeah, well, we don't have time to figure out whether they are or they aren't. They'll get to Earth hours before we do - they're going much faster than us." Jadeite lifted the communication device from the main panel of the ship and punched up Mars', Venus', and Kunzite's ships all at once. "Do guys see that?"
"Do we ever!" said Sailorvenus, her voice a little scratchy. "They'll land on Earth in a few minutes if we don't stop them, and it'll take us hours to chase them!"
"Kunzite, your ship has the fastest gunnery. Can you get them?"
"I've got my gunnery-OIC guy on them right now." Silence ensued as Kunzite did the necessary things on his ship, and a moment later a red missile was speeding towards the large ship attempting to enter Earth's atmosphere.
Before Jadeite could even blink, the missile had vaporized. The larger ship's gunnery hatch - or, what could be assumed to be the larger ship's gunnery hatch - was smoking a little bit.
"Please don't attempt that again," a wavery voice came over the ship's communications system. Jadeite looked up, wondering how the ship had communicated with them since they weren't wired into the Crystal Fleet's communications system. "As you can see, we are bigger, faster, and more powerful than your tiny ships. Try it again and you might get hurt."
"What the hell...are you guys hearing that?" Mars asked.
"Yeah, we hear it," Jadeite called back in.
"I hear it too." Venus' voice crackled over the system.
"Got it." The last one to come in was Kunzite, and his voice sounded uncertain - a new tone for the confident oldest general.
"I'm aiming on the guy again," said Mars. "I'm going to see if I can hit his left rotor. He's going to take so long to turn around he won't see it coming."
"No, Rei!" Jadeite yelled. Mars had good aim, and he knew she was going to take the shot herself, not letting any of her gunnery engineers do it.
It was too late. Mars had already punched up the responder and had sent the missile flying. It sliced through space towards the larger alien vehicle.
The missile was almost to the rotor of the larger ship - if it hit, it would make the ship unstable and it would fly in circles. Jadeite could hear the excitement building in Mars's voice. "Yes! It's going to hit!"
Suddenly the larger starship shook with the force of exuding two more missiles. The first vaporized the missile Sailormars had thrown towards the ship. The second sped in the direction of Mars' ship.
It was huge and very fast, and Jadeite knew there was no chance that he could even try to hit it with one of their ship's slower moving missiles. He could only watch it with a feeling of sinking horror as it closed in on Mars' ship.
"Oh, hell." Kunzite's voice came over the communicator.
"Jesus Christ!" The exclamation must have come from Mars' earlier years in a Catholic school. It was the last thing Jadeite heard from her. The missle struck her ship head-on with a force that caused a shock wave to rip through the space enclosing the small fleet's radius. Kunzite's ship was very close to Mars' and the side of the missle smashed into the side of the ship. Jadeite's and Sailorvenus' ships were rocked by the shockwave, but other than that, they were unhurt.
"Sadayoshi!" Venus yelled.
"REI!" Jadeite screamed.
***
"Stupid humans!" Prince Tamashiiro yelled scornfully, looking through the viewfinder. The Alpha ship had left the four Earthian ships far behind - they were entering the atmosphere of the planet Earth and should be landing on the ground in less than twenty minutes. "Why did they have to go and shoot again? We *told* them not to shoot!"
"Calm down, Prince Tamashiiro-sama," said Acting Third Delta Shigenoi, staring at the prince warily. "What do you care? The ships were stopped, weren't they?"
"Striking another when the intent is different is never good, Delta Shigenoi," said Acting First Delta Hojo. "The prince didn't want to hit the humans. Fools."
"Besides," Acting Second Delta Reizei added, "we don't want to do too much damage to alert the Earthians too much. They might get a little feisty and want to fight against us."
"Which won't be a problem - once the other envoy with the Psi soldiers arrives," said Tamashiiro. "However, the Psi and the others aren't here yet. So we have to wait before we can do whatever we want. For the time being, we have to be diplomatic with the Earthians."
***
"Damn! That missile hit Rei's ship!" yelled Sailorjupiter, banging a hand on the console.
"Don't break the computers, Mako-chan!" said Sailormercury, lunging forwards to put her own hand in the path of Jupiter's. "They're our only link with the ships!"
"Her hand banging the console won't do anything to the computers," Zoisite said.
"Charged with some of that Jupiter ki, it will," Nephrite warned. "Back to business."
"Business?! Sailormars' and Kunzite's ships just got hit head-on with a missile the size of the American state of Rhode Island!" Sailorjupiter said, pointing to the screen. "What's more, it's about to land. It's going through the atmosphere and looking for clear area to land right about now."
"Don't exaggerate, Jupiter, and there's nowhere that will take a ship that big with enough space to lay everything else."
"Wait...we lost it."
"They might have added a cloaking device to their ship," Nephrite said. "They don't want us to see where they're landing at."
***
"We have to find somewhere to land, that's what we need to do," said one of the Eta pilots, looking through the mapping device he had of the small planet Earth. "Any specifications?"
"Something not in Japan, but not too far away," said Tamashiiro. "Closer than seventy-five thousand kilometers, let's say. We can cover that distance easily in our smallar landships."
"Hmmm." The pilot searched. "Found a place. The distance, as the crow flies, from Crystal Tokyo to this little place is six thousand six hundred twelve kilometers. Fair enough?"
"Very fair," said Tamashiiro. "It should take us a little more than a half hour to cross that with the other craft we brought.
"Good news, sire," said the Zeta communications officer. "The ship with the Psi reinforcements found a space jump and are closer than anticipated. They should be arriving on the planet in the time span of three Earth hours. They want to know where to land."
"Tell them." The Eta co-pilot squinted at the screen. "Alice Springs, Australia. Or a few kilometers outside it, so as not to alert any of the residents. The desert area of Australia seems...well, deserted. Also, tell them to cloak themselves.we don't want to Earthians to know where we have landed so as to anticipate our arrival in the city."
"Going in for a landing, your highness," the Eta pilot said. "Landing in ten minutes."
"Everything suddenly started going a lot faster," said Tamashiiro. He smiled towards the chambers of the starship, knowing that the messengers were going in and out of his father's room to inform him of their progress. He wondered if Emperor Omega was happy or not.
"Landing in eight minutes, your highness," the Eta pilot told him. "Everything gone normal, a completely smooth landing."
"That's good to know," said Tamashiiro. "Keep at it, and tell me when we're on the ground."
***
Aiyana looked up at the spires of the immense Crystal Palace, situated in the middle of the city. It created a utopian look to the city, a serene pillar of peace and security that lay within a tiny little bubble in the Far East of Earth.
Aiyana knew for a fact that the rest of the world didn't experience the supposedly unprecedented peace that Crystal Tokoy experienced. Her memories of the past were still hazy, but with the purging of the elixir and the meeting with her mother, they were flying back to her at lightning speed. The emotions had hit before the actual memories did, and the emotion of bitterness at the irony of the situation had hit her rather than the knowledge of something different in her home in Ireland. But just the same, she deduced that must have come from a stark constrast between the serenity of these crystal walls and the conditions in her home country.
Home country...with a start, Aiyana realized that she was both an Irish citizen and a Japanese citizen. If the laws were anything like what she'd studied, the birthplace clause dictated she was an Irish citizen, having been born in that strange country halfway across the world. However, the jus sanguenious clause stated that she was also a Japanese citizen by blood - because both of her parents had been Japanese citizens. Therefore, she had certain rights that she could use should it come down to a trial - such as, they could not banish her without a due trial. That meant that her father couldn't banish her without telling everyone the truth about why, if Ami and her side contested it, which she was pretty sure they would.
A smile on her lips at that realization, she came to a stop on the side of the huge crystalline palace and stared up. However would she get inside? How had she gotten in that first night? The Second Delta had been sent to accompany her on her mission and help her inside, as well as instruct her on the missionry of the small craft that he had left for her to get back to Centauri after she had finished her mission. He had also aided her entry up until a certain point, then warned her that she was on her own after that. Where was it? A small entrance they had welded in the wing of the royal bedrooms, but still a distance from the bedrooms.
Circling the great palace would take forever, and looking for the small entrance she and the Second Delta had made would take even longer. It was only big enough for her to get in and had been partially sealed after making it, so that she could kick it back open if needed, but only with a great amount of force - a strength she didn't have anymore, after giving birth to Mikomi and vomiting up the elixir on top of that. It was dangerous for her to make it even this far - she wasn't as strong as she used to be, and couldn't fight as effectively as she did. If those two generals she had fought - and given difficulty - found her now, they would be able to take her easily.
*Thinking these defeatist thoughts isn't going to get me very far,* Aiyana thought to herself. *I'm the spirit of the god Saturn, and I have strength within myself. Besides, if I can summon memories from seventeen years ago, then I can summon my skills and powers from merely a few months ago, right?* She nodded to herself, then took a place on the ground, touching her hand against the cold crystal walls of the palace and placing another hand on the ground next to her, thinking it odd that none of the guards or Senshi usually patrolling the place had found her yet.
Suddenly she felt a little electric charge in the hand that was on the ground. When she lifted it, a flower lay, a little crushed, where her hand had been; her hand was sparkling with a golden light. After making a hasty assessment of herself, she realized that she didn't really feel any worse - as a matter of fact, she felt energized.
Aiyana's eyes widened, and she smiled. She laid her hand on another small flower growing around the base of Crystal Palace. Once again, there was that little electric charge. She lifted her hand, and the flower this time also looked a little crushed. Her hand shone with that same golden light, tinged with a little violet she saw by staring closer, and she had an extra feeling of energy.
"I think," she whispered to herself, "that I just found the other half of my parentage within myself." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------AN: I'm almost positive I didn't spell *jus sanguineous* right, but it's a real clause. I'm just too lazy to look up the spelling.
Email me at keskiivikko@yahoo.com for questions and stoof.
***
"Aiyana, are you crazy? It's four o'clock in the morning, what - what *are* you doing?"
Aiyana stared at Masaya. "You're a doctor," she said. "You should be used to doing calls early in the morning."
Aiyana had notified the hospital staff that Masaya needed to get to the hospital immediately for an emergency. They were to use any means possible to get him here - or else. Picking up on the young man's feelings for the new mother, the nurse had told Masaya simply that Aiyana had a critical problem, and the young doctor had come running.
When he arrived and found that Aiyana was alive and well, and that Mikomi was as well, he was more than a little miffed.
"Yeah, but-" Masaya yawned. "If I don't have to do any calls, I like to sleep."
"I've got a problem," said Aiyana. "Maybe not critical to my life, but it is pretty critical. I need for you to take Mikomi-chan and these letters to Ami's house." Aiyana sensed Masaya about to protest, so she continued on quickly. "I have something to do and I don't have time to go to Ami's house, nor the means. As it is, I have to get to the palace on foot, and it'll take me a while to get there."
"The palace? Aiyana, are you crazy? The decision hasn't yet been rendered by the king and queen, and they may-"
"Let me repeat: I *have* to get to the palace on foot,and it'll take me a little while to get there." Aiyana held Mikomi out towards Masaya, her eyes pleading. "Please, Masaya. You promised me that you would help me in any way you could."
Masaya sighed. He had promised her that, and he intended to keep that promise. "But." He gently took Mikomi from Aiyana's outstretched hands. The little girl shifted and sighed a little, getting comfortable in her new caretaker's arms. "Could you *please* tell me what you plan on doing?"
Aiyana smiled mysteriously and kissed Masaya on his cheek. "Thank you," she said. "I should be back in a little while; I don't want to be away from Mikomi-chan too long. I love my girl," she said, now directing her attention to her daughter. "I don't want to be away from my girl."
Masaya sighed heavily. "Okay, if you want to be mysterious, go ahead," he said. "I don't care. I don't even think I want to know."
Aiyana looked back up at Masaya. "I have a few things to take care of for the legacy of my mother. Don't ask," she added, when she saw the incredulous look on Masaya's face. "I just know, okay?"
Masaya nodded and cradled Mikomi closer to him.
"If Kaioh-san and Tenoh-san come looking for me - they'll probably go to Ami - tell Ami to give them these letters." She pointed to the letters she handed Masaya. "I didn't write them. Hotaru did."
Masaya's eyes widened.
"One more thing...Masaya, what did they do with my sword?"
***
The pilot on deck was half-asleep until the sensors started beeping madly.
Jadeite slapped the pilot in the back of the head as he rushed up to the control deck of the ship. The pilot shook his head and groggily opened his eyes. "Jadeite-dono, what was that for?"
"For this, numbskull!" Jadeite pointed to the screen. "These guys are almost on top of you, and they're about to attempt to land on earth!"
"What if they come in peace?" said the co-pilot, half-jokingly.
"Yeah, well, we don't have time to figure out whether they are or they aren't. They'll get to Earth hours before we do - they're going much faster than us." Jadeite lifted the communication device from the main panel of the ship and punched up Mars', Venus', and Kunzite's ships all at once. "Do guys see that?"
"Do we ever!" said Sailorvenus, her voice a little scratchy. "They'll land on Earth in a few minutes if we don't stop them, and it'll take us hours to chase them!"
"Kunzite, your ship has the fastest gunnery. Can you get them?"
"I've got my gunnery-OIC guy on them right now." Silence ensued as Kunzite did the necessary things on his ship, and a moment later a red missile was speeding towards the large ship attempting to enter Earth's atmosphere.
Before Jadeite could even blink, the missile had vaporized. The larger ship's gunnery hatch - or, what could be assumed to be the larger ship's gunnery hatch - was smoking a little bit.
"Please don't attempt that again," a wavery voice came over the ship's communications system. Jadeite looked up, wondering how the ship had communicated with them since they weren't wired into the Crystal Fleet's communications system. "As you can see, we are bigger, faster, and more powerful than your tiny ships. Try it again and you might get hurt."
"What the hell...are you guys hearing that?" Mars asked.
"Yeah, we hear it," Jadeite called back in.
"I hear it too." Venus' voice crackled over the system.
"Got it." The last one to come in was Kunzite, and his voice sounded uncertain - a new tone for the confident oldest general.
"I'm aiming on the guy again," said Mars. "I'm going to see if I can hit his left rotor. He's going to take so long to turn around he won't see it coming."
"No, Rei!" Jadeite yelled. Mars had good aim, and he knew she was going to take the shot herself, not letting any of her gunnery engineers do it.
It was too late. Mars had already punched up the responder and had sent the missile flying. It sliced through space towards the larger alien vehicle.
The missile was almost to the rotor of the larger ship - if it hit, it would make the ship unstable and it would fly in circles. Jadeite could hear the excitement building in Mars's voice. "Yes! It's going to hit!"
Suddenly the larger starship shook with the force of exuding two more missiles. The first vaporized the missile Sailormars had thrown towards the ship. The second sped in the direction of Mars' ship.
It was huge and very fast, and Jadeite knew there was no chance that he could even try to hit it with one of their ship's slower moving missiles. He could only watch it with a feeling of sinking horror as it closed in on Mars' ship.
"Oh, hell." Kunzite's voice came over the communicator.
"Jesus Christ!" The exclamation must have come from Mars' earlier years in a Catholic school. It was the last thing Jadeite heard from her. The missle struck her ship head-on with a force that caused a shock wave to rip through the space enclosing the small fleet's radius. Kunzite's ship was very close to Mars' and the side of the missle smashed into the side of the ship. Jadeite's and Sailorvenus' ships were rocked by the shockwave, but other than that, they were unhurt.
"Sadayoshi!" Venus yelled.
"REI!" Jadeite screamed.
***
"Stupid humans!" Prince Tamashiiro yelled scornfully, looking through the viewfinder. The Alpha ship had left the four Earthian ships far behind - they were entering the atmosphere of the planet Earth and should be landing on the ground in less than twenty minutes. "Why did they have to go and shoot again? We *told* them not to shoot!"
"Calm down, Prince Tamashiiro-sama," said Acting Third Delta Shigenoi, staring at the prince warily. "What do you care? The ships were stopped, weren't they?"
"Striking another when the intent is different is never good, Delta Shigenoi," said Acting First Delta Hojo. "The prince didn't want to hit the humans. Fools."
"Besides," Acting Second Delta Reizei added, "we don't want to do too much damage to alert the Earthians too much. They might get a little feisty and want to fight against us."
"Which won't be a problem - once the other envoy with the Psi soldiers arrives," said Tamashiiro. "However, the Psi and the others aren't here yet. So we have to wait before we can do whatever we want. For the time being, we have to be diplomatic with the Earthians."
***
"Damn! That missile hit Rei's ship!" yelled Sailorjupiter, banging a hand on the console.
"Don't break the computers, Mako-chan!" said Sailormercury, lunging forwards to put her own hand in the path of Jupiter's. "They're our only link with the ships!"
"Her hand banging the console won't do anything to the computers," Zoisite said.
"Charged with some of that Jupiter ki, it will," Nephrite warned. "Back to business."
"Business?! Sailormars' and Kunzite's ships just got hit head-on with a missile the size of the American state of Rhode Island!" Sailorjupiter said, pointing to the screen. "What's more, it's about to land. It's going through the atmosphere and looking for clear area to land right about now."
"Don't exaggerate, Jupiter, and there's nowhere that will take a ship that big with enough space to lay everything else."
"Wait...we lost it."
"They might have added a cloaking device to their ship," Nephrite said. "They don't want us to see where they're landing at."
***
"We have to find somewhere to land, that's what we need to do," said one of the Eta pilots, looking through the mapping device he had of the small planet Earth. "Any specifications?"
"Something not in Japan, but not too far away," said Tamashiiro. "Closer than seventy-five thousand kilometers, let's say. We can cover that distance easily in our smallar landships."
"Hmmm." The pilot searched. "Found a place. The distance, as the crow flies, from Crystal Tokyo to this little place is six thousand six hundred twelve kilometers. Fair enough?"
"Very fair," said Tamashiiro. "It should take us a little more than a half hour to cross that with the other craft we brought.
"Good news, sire," said the Zeta communications officer. "The ship with the Psi reinforcements found a space jump and are closer than anticipated. They should be arriving on the planet in the time span of three Earth hours. They want to know where to land."
"Tell them." The Eta co-pilot squinted at the screen. "Alice Springs, Australia. Or a few kilometers outside it, so as not to alert any of the residents. The desert area of Australia seems...well, deserted. Also, tell them to cloak themselves.we don't want to Earthians to know where we have landed so as to anticipate our arrival in the city."
"Going in for a landing, your highness," the Eta pilot said. "Landing in ten minutes."
"Everything suddenly started going a lot faster," said Tamashiiro. He smiled towards the chambers of the starship, knowing that the messengers were going in and out of his father's room to inform him of their progress. He wondered if Emperor Omega was happy or not.
"Landing in eight minutes, your highness," the Eta pilot told him. "Everything gone normal, a completely smooth landing."
"That's good to know," said Tamashiiro. "Keep at it, and tell me when we're on the ground."
***
Aiyana looked up at the spires of the immense Crystal Palace, situated in the middle of the city. It created a utopian look to the city, a serene pillar of peace and security that lay within a tiny little bubble in the Far East of Earth.
Aiyana knew for a fact that the rest of the world didn't experience the supposedly unprecedented peace that Crystal Tokoy experienced. Her memories of the past were still hazy, but with the purging of the elixir and the meeting with her mother, they were flying back to her at lightning speed. The emotions had hit before the actual memories did, and the emotion of bitterness at the irony of the situation had hit her rather than the knowledge of something different in her home in Ireland. But just the same, she deduced that must have come from a stark constrast between the serenity of these crystal walls and the conditions in her home country.
Home country...with a start, Aiyana realized that she was both an Irish citizen and a Japanese citizen. If the laws were anything like what she'd studied, the birthplace clause dictated she was an Irish citizen, having been born in that strange country halfway across the world. However, the jus sanguenious clause stated that she was also a Japanese citizen by blood - because both of her parents had been Japanese citizens. Therefore, she had certain rights that she could use should it come down to a trial - such as, they could not banish her without a due trial. That meant that her father couldn't banish her without telling everyone the truth about why, if Ami and her side contested it, which she was pretty sure they would.
A smile on her lips at that realization, she came to a stop on the side of the huge crystalline palace and stared up. However would she get inside? How had she gotten in that first night? The Second Delta had been sent to accompany her on her mission and help her inside, as well as instruct her on the missionry of the small craft that he had left for her to get back to Centauri after she had finished her mission. He had also aided her entry up until a certain point, then warned her that she was on her own after that. Where was it? A small entrance they had welded in the wing of the royal bedrooms, but still a distance from the bedrooms.
Circling the great palace would take forever, and looking for the small entrance she and the Second Delta had made would take even longer. It was only big enough for her to get in and had been partially sealed after making it, so that she could kick it back open if needed, but only with a great amount of force - a strength she didn't have anymore, after giving birth to Mikomi and vomiting up the elixir on top of that. It was dangerous for her to make it even this far - she wasn't as strong as she used to be, and couldn't fight as effectively as she did. If those two generals she had fought - and given difficulty - found her now, they would be able to take her easily.
*Thinking these defeatist thoughts isn't going to get me very far,* Aiyana thought to herself. *I'm the spirit of the god Saturn, and I have strength within myself. Besides, if I can summon memories from seventeen years ago, then I can summon my skills and powers from merely a few months ago, right?* She nodded to herself, then took a place on the ground, touching her hand against the cold crystal walls of the palace and placing another hand on the ground next to her, thinking it odd that none of the guards or Senshi usually patrolling the place had found her yet.
Suddenly she felt a little electric charge in the hand that was on the ground. When she lifted it, a flower lay, a little crushed, where her hand had been; her hand was sparkling with a golden light. After making a hasty assessment of herself, she realized that she didn't really feel any worse - as a matter of fact, she felt energized.
Aiyana's eyes widened, and she smiled. She laid her hand on another small flower growing around the base of Crystal Palace. Once again, there was that little electric charge. She lifted her hand, and the flower this time also looked a little crushed. Her hand shone with that same golden light, tinged with a little violet she saw by staring closer, and she had an extra feeling of energy.
"I think," she whispered to herself, "that I just found the other half of my parentage within myself." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------AN: I'm almost positive I didn't spell *jus sanguineous* right, but it's a real clause. I'm just too lazy to look up the spelling.
Email me at keskiivikko@yahoo.com for questions and stoof.